Project 1: HTTP status codes

What you will learn in this TP

• Start a dashboard
• Add a dashlet
• Retrieve the data
• Convert a GitHub URL to RAW format
• Retrieve data from a URL in Grafana with Infinity
• Bar chart visualization
• Display the data as a table
• Transform the data
• Convert fields
• Order the fields
• Bar chart visualization
• Mappings
• Regex

Introduction #

What you will learn in this section

• Start a dashboard
• Add a dashlet

This project aims to help you master real user monitoring (RUM) in Dynatrace.

Data source #

What you will learn in this section

• Retrieve the data
• Convert a GitHub URL to RAW format
• Retrieve data from a URL in Grafana with Infinity
• Bar chart visualization

1. Converting the URL

   You must retrieve the data from the repository at: https://github.com/RousselTM/grafana-formation/blob/main/tp/data/response-code.json. To be usable in Grafana, it must be converted to RAW.

2. Adding the URL

   You must retrieve the data from this URL in Grafana using a data source of type Infinity (JSON type).

3. Changing the visualization

   Change the default visualization and set it to a table.

Transformations #

What you will learn in this section

• Display the data as a table
• Transform the data
• Convert fields
• Order the fields

To complete this lab, you must have fully completed 'Project 1'.

1. Converting a field

   You must convert the 'status' field to a string.

2. Sorting the values

   You must sort the content of the 'status' field in descending order.

Color management #

What you will learn in this section

• Bar chart visualization
• Mappings
• Regex

For this section, we will work with colors.

1. Changing the visualization

   Change the visualization to display it as a bar chart.

2. Changing the coloring

   You must change the default coloring to a traffic-light scheme:
   • 200 to 299: Green
   • 300 to 399: Yellow
   • 400 to 499: Orange
   • 500 to 599: Red
   .

Difficulty level : ●●○○○ (2/5)